Seminar in Los Angles April 18 2010
Seminar in Los Angles April 18 2010
For the second week of seminar, I have made a little adjustment in teaching to accommodate the students’ need.
I put Jim and Aracelia in separate group.
Remainder of students were shown how to construct the diagram of hairstyle.
Their emphasis is to learn how to transform the hair styles to diagram forms from photographs found in hairstyle magazines.
In this session,
the students will learn how to hold scissors and how to open/close blades correctly.
The whole class participated in this exercise.
They were given a strip of newspaper to cut uniformly with scissors as fine width as possible.
Spires! Spires! Not a single one of students could cut the newspaper straight. Their tendency is to cut diagonally.
The main reason is that students’ tendency is to GRAB the scissors rather than to “hold” scissors
Photo #1 Let’s look at Aarceli’s as an example.
Her wrist is straight and the tip end of scissors are pointing toward her chest. (Blade of scissors should be parallel to her body.)
Photo #2 If you examine closely, you will notice the scissors is pointing toward her chest.
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Photo #3 As in this picture, if you grab ( instead of holding) the scissors,
Photo #4 The result is that you end up pointing the scissors to the chest.
#3. #4.
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#5 PLEASE learn to “hold” the scissors.
Photo #6 If you grab the scissors, it will always look like this.
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Photo #7 Hold the scissors and naturally bend your wrist outwardly.
photo 8 Do not stretch your wrist as in the picture.
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Photo #9 Now I will try to explain why it’s not easy to “hold” the scissors.
When you have been accustomed to hold (most likely to “grab”) the scissors certain way for a long time, it is difficult to make adjustment.
Your brain understands it, but your hand receiving the command is another story.
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photo #10 For this reason, I always recommend and show the students to practice cutting the strips of newspaper.
Photo #11 If you cut 8 pounds of strips of newspaper ( which will take between 3 to 6 months), you have trained your thumb muscles to last the life time and ready to use anytime ready to go.
#10. #11.
Some of the students have already taken several classes and have lots of experience that now they should proceed to learn how to make a diagram of hair design that they are about to create.
Instructor Taka takes the extra time to explain the procedure of converting hair designs to diagram forms by showing the line of hair design on the model wig.
Jim and Araceli will be taught how to do the round layered haircut with more graduated nape area.
Before the actual haircut,
I instructed Jim and Araceli to go through the process of haircutting with simulation on movement only.
The simulations include the foot position and how you move your feet, the body position and the hand angle from start to the end of haircut. I asked them to do that for five times before cutting hair.
#1 First foot position at 2 o’clock and moving the body to cut position.
#2 Pull out the hair by moving the body (not arm and hand alone).
#3 Bring the hair to the intended hair length (to the guideline ).
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The angle of fingers are good, but the arm is at the side of body. The left arm should be closer to the center of body.
How about the other group?
Cindy. . Diana .Esther
.Connie .
#1 I am explaining to her[ when my foot position is done properly so that my body moves in a straight line. I could pull the hair straight out even I am talking to you!]
#2 Esther simulates the motion after watching me. but she is not able to pull the hair straight out because her left elbow is behind the cutting position.
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#3 Other students are laughing because Esther is having difficulty?!?
#4 So, Diana attempts to do it !?!
#5 Everyone realizes it’s not easy to do it. So this time around, they look at my demonstration more seriously.
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Today, Cindy was able to finish the un-symmetric cut on time.
I would like to show the cut result.
At this stage, this is a straight haircut. Next week, we will learn how to adjust the volume of hair by using the thinning shears to add more definitions.
Many students weren’t able to finish the haircut because I focused on each students weak spot and drill on it.
Next week will conclude the April seminar class.
Review and summarization:
Holding the scissors.
As I mentioned at the beginning, the students still have strong tendency to “grab” the scissors. If you do that, you will end up cutting the hair on uniformly slanted angle.
Especially you do the men’s short hair cut or try to do a clean tapering, your tendency is to create steps. You cut over and over to correct and end up creating more steps!
This applies to the long hair style as well.
If your scissors don’t have consistency of “holding” , you will most likely create inconsistency in cutting line. Because the line is inconsistent, hair will not move well.
In a nutshell:
Do “Hold” the scissors!
Train your wrist and fingers to become soft and pliable ( Do you remember the exercise I’ve shown you?)
When you achieve the softness of wrists and fingers, you could cut any line, be straight, inside slant, outside slant, or any other creative line you wish to execute with unlimited freedom.
It all comes down to this:
It is the softness that is the winning formula for creation. “Grabbers” can only have a few eggs in basket. “Hold” and let the scissors do the cutting!
please check it next semnar
